Combined label-holder and pattern or parcel remover.



'M. FRANK. COMBINED LABEL HOLDER AND PATTERN 0R PARCEL REMOVER APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCFL.

MEYER FRANK, OF CHEYENNE, WYOMING.

COItIBINED LABEL-HULDER AND PATTERN OR PARCEL REMOVER.

Application filed April 2%, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lllnrnn FRANK, a citizen of the Jnited States, residing at Cheyenne, in the county of Laramie and State of lVyoming, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Label-Holders and Pattern or Parcel Removers, of which the following is a specification.

Tiis invention relates to an improvement in means for removing 1 arcels or packages from pigeonholes or other like receptacles and has for its object the provision of a de vice of this sort which may be combined with the label holder, by which the contents of a pigeonhole may be designated.

A further object of the invention is the production of an article of manufacture consistin g of a parcel remover and a label holder so formed and constructed that the two may be attached together and the whole permanently secured in place at the time of aflixing the label holder to the pigeonhole or like receptacle.

To this end the invention consists in the formation of parts and the combination thereof for the purpose specified in substan tially the manner herein shown, described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents in front elevation the improved article of manufacture consisting of a combined label holder and parcel remover, a portion of the label being shown partially inserted; Fig. 2 represents a transverse section through the label holder taken in the plane indicated by the line 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 shows, on an enlarged scale, a transverse section of the combined label holder and parcel remover taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3, Fig. 1, and showing the manner in which the parcel remover is secured to the label holder; Fig. 4 shows, on an enlarged scale, a rear view of that portion of the device illustrated in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 illustrates a portion of a cabinet representing three pigeonholes with parcels therein and shows the invention applied thereto; and Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section through the cabinet, as seen in Fig. 5.

The invention was primarily designed for use in connection with tissue paper patterns to avoid the difficulty experienced in removing bunches of these patterns from pigeonholes, particularly when such pigeonholes were somewhat overcrowded. Obviously,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Serial No. 429,037.

however, the invention is capable of use in connection with the removal of various packages, parcels, or files from pigeonholes or other like receptacles in which they are stored.

In the drawings, the as consisting of a strip ing recurved edges forming guideways for the reception and retention of a strip of cardboard or like material 8 bearing numbers, figures, names, or other matter indicative of the contents of the pigeonhole, to which the label is afhxed. The parcel remover is indicated at 9 and preferably consists of a strip of webbing and this strip is secured to the label holder preferably as i11- dicated in the drawings. In the form of attachment shown, a portion of the metal, from which the label holder is formed, is bent to the rear of the label holder and then downwardly into parallelism, as seen at 10 in Figs. 3 and 4. The end of the strip of webbing 9 is then inserted between the body of the label holder and the recurved portion 10, which in efiect forms a clip. Preferably the end of the webbing is folded upon itself, as shown. To hold the webbing in place in the clip, a row of punch marks or indentations may be struck through the clip, as indicated at 11. The webbing may be hemmed at its lower end or provided with a metallic tip such as indicated at 12.

This combined label holder and parcel remover may be atlixed by means of tacks driven through holes therein, indicated at 13 and 14, or in any other suitable manner, but preferably tips, as indicated in Fig. l, are formed at the ends of the label holder extending beyond the recurved edges and through these the tack holes 13 are made. By these means it is possible to attach the label holder by the use of a hammer alone without danger of bending down the re curved edges of the label holder. The manner of forming the clip 10 also provides for the insertion of a tack at 14: without the necessity of using a nail set and without the liability of hammering down the recurved edge of the label holder. The tack inserted at 14: also lends further security to the attachment of the webbing.

In order to get at any one of the number of parcels stored in a pigeonhole it is necessary only to grasp the exposed end of the parcel remover, as seen in Figs. 5 and 6, and bypulling on the same cause the contents label holder is shown of sheet metal 7 l av-' of the pigeonhole to protrude sufliciently to be readily grasped by the hand, as seen at 15 in Fig. 6. After the desired package has been removed, or a portion of its contents selected, the Whole bunch of parcels may be again inserted in the pigeonhole, and in the act of reinserting it, the parcel remover is pushed back into the pigeonhole into the positions indicated in the uppermost pigeonholes of Figs. 5 and 6.

The invention claimed is 1. An article of manufacture consisting of a label holder and a strip of fabric attached thereto and constituting a parcel remover substantially as set forth and for the purpose specified.

2. An article of manufacture consisting in the combination of a label holder provided with a clip struck up from the body thereof and folded backward and a strip of flexible material secured to the label holder by means of said clip and constituting a parcel remover.

3. he combination With a receptacle, of a label holder therefor provided on its rear side With a clip, and a strip of Webbing having its end inserted in said clip and depending before the entrance to the receptacle for the purpose specified, said label holder being constructed so that the securing means therefor shall also lend additional security to the attachment of the tape, substantially as set forth.

MEYER FRANK.

Witnesses A. W. lWfEYnRS, HARRY A. RUFF. 

